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The whistle-blower who exposed breakthrough cloning research as a devastating fake says South Korea is still dominated by the values that allowed science fraudster Hwang Woo-suk to become an almost untouchable national hero. In an interview after almost a decade of silence, Ryu Young-joon, ...

China will launch its latest lunar orbiter in the coming days in its first attempt to send a spacecraft around the moon and back to Earth. The spacecraft, which has not been named, will launch between Friday and Sunday, China’s official Xinhua News Agency ...

Despite heavy pollution blanketing Beijing on Sunday, an international marathon went ahead with face masks and sponges among the equipment used by competitors to battle the toxic smog. The 34th Beijing International Marathon began at Tiananmen Square with many of the tens of thousands ...

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The country’s top environment official unveiled a government program Friday that will eventually measure air quality across India, home to some of the most polluted cities in the world. Over the next five years, the government will begin measuring eight major pollutants that affect ...

Jakarta has launched a multibillion-dollar scheme to build a huge sea wall to combat flooding as the Indonesian capital sinks, but there is skepticism about its chances of success in a country with a history of corruption and failed mega-projects. The 35-kilometer (22-mile) wall, ...

A Chinese drugmaker with close military ties is seeking fast-track approval for a drug that it says can cure Ebola as China joins the race to help treat a deadly outbreak of the disease, which has spread from Africa to the United States and ...

Many U.S. coastal communities struggling with flooding at high tides will find that the problem becomes “chronic” in the coming 15 years due to global warming, scientists say. Shorelines are becoming more populated at a time when sea levels are swelling due to melting ...

A silhouette of a hand on a cave wall in Indonesia is 40,000 years old, showing that Europe was not the birthplace of art, as long believed, researchers said on Wednesday. Created by blowing or spraying reddish paint around an open hand pressed against ...

The dengue virus has killed six people and infected more than 21,000 in southern China’s worst outbreak of the mosquito-transmitted disease in about two decades, officials said Tuesday. Authorities in worst-affected Guangdong province attribute the severity of this year’s outbreak to exceptionally hot and ...

A health official in Pakistan said Saturday that authorities already have detected a record number of polio cases this year, blaming militants for the outbreak. Rana Mohammad Safdar, a senior official at the National Institute of Health in Islamabad, said doctors have discovered 202 ...

As India celebrated becoming the first Asian nation to reach Mars, S.M. Vaidya, head of business at conglomerate Godrej’s aerospace division that made the spacecraft’s engine and thruster components, sounded surprisingly downbeat. The mission was, indeed, a major achievement, he said, and one of ...

India triumphed in its first interplanetary mission, placing a satellite into orbit around Mars on Wednesday morning and catapulting the country into an elite club of deep-space explorers. Scientists broke into wild cheers as the orbiter’s engines completed 24 minutes of burn time and ...